A sign that a cave contains deadly spiders, this is a human shaped web, typically hanging from the ceiling in the way that a spider might wrap a fly in web before drinking its fluids. Common in computer games. Also see Bound and Gagged and Mummy Wrap.

Venom has been known to do this to a few people too, but there have been cases where he purposely let the victim suffocate. (Venom is usually reluctant to kill anyone other than Spider-Man; the folks he did this to tended to be criminals and other scum.

Preservers in ElfQuest like to wrap living beings in suspended animation cocoons. The cocoons don't give a clue as to their occupants' shape, though in the case of humans or elves the size is usually a giveaway.

Widow from Savage Dragon can spin webs to tangle people up. It was unknown how she achieved this for many issues until a single panel cropped up showing her hanging upside down from a web-strand... only both of her hands were free and her leg was obscuring the direct source of the web. One reader jokingly wrote in and asked if she spun webs the same way spiders do and Word of God responded: yes.

Films — Animated

Rosie actually does to PT Flea near the end of A Bug's Life after realizing that he was not nice to the circus bugs.

Films — Live-Action

Stephen King's The Mist has several people cocooned by monstrous spider-like things from the mist. Since they're able to cocoon people despite their webs being caustic enough to cut off people's limbs in other scenes, they presumably can spin different types of webbing. (As do ordinary spiders.)

In James and the Giant Peach, Miss Spider and the Old Green Grasshopper team up to give Aunts Spiker and Sponge this treatment.

This happens partially to Marla in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, courtesy of the Spider Gremlin. (It isn't able to wrap her up completely.) Kate finds her before it gets to her and considers leaving her to her fate for what happened earlier (Kate had assumed she had seduced Billy); when Marla confesses and tells her what actually happened, Kate decides to cut her loose, but then the monster appears. Fortunately, Gizmo, now sick of being bullied by the gremlins, appears dressed up like Rambo and kills the thing with an makeshift bow and arrow tipped with an ignited bottle of white-out.

This happens to Daine in the last book of The Immortals. She accidentally falls of a cliff and gets caught in a trap made by giant spiders with human heads called Spidrens. The next series of the Tortall Universe, Protector of the Small, has Keladry and her fellow pages encountering victims who aren't rescued in time.

In the short story "One Night Strand", the protagonist discovers to his disgust and horror that the noisy couple next door are some guy he nicknames "Mr. Bones" (since he's so thin) and a Giant Spider. Mr. Bones is all webbed up while his spider lover is engaging in foreplay. The story ends with the protagonist fleeing in his jeep. While he's driving, he has a bit of in-universe Fridge Horror when he recalls seeing the remains of webbed up insects in spiderwebs and connects that with Mr. Bones, and gives his jeep more gas.

In Doom, Bill Ritch was wrapped in webs after the spidermind interrogated him.

Live Action TV

Star Trek: Enterprise had some alien organism effectively web up Captain Archer and four other crew members.

Subverted in Star Trek: Voyager; the forehead-of-the-week's corpses just happen to decompose that way.

This appears in the Angel episode "Couplet", Fred and Gunn are in the flesh-eating tree's roots.

The X-Files had this in the episode "Darkness Falls". It's different in that the subjects are killed before being cocooned(as seen by the badly-eaten corpses of loggers earlier in the episode). It's possible that the bugs were just storing food, or leaving it for their babies.

Subverted in The River. The father, whom everyone has been searching for, is eventually found like this (though encased in amber), but it turns out he did this to himself in order to survive.

Basic Dungeons & Dragons module M5 Talons of Night. Finnister MacAlister and any other captive NPCs are found paralyzed and wrapped up in web with egg sacs bound to their chests - they're intended to be food for the baby spiders.

You can also cast the Web spell yourself! That version lasts up to a few hours (depending on the caster's level) unless the victim can break or wriggle out first. (Fire can free a victim quickly, but that usually hurts the victim in the process.)

Call of Cthulhu. Very likely to happen to anyone who tangles with the giant spider-like Great Old One named Atlach-Nacha or Leng Spiders.

Toys

In BIONICLE, the Toa Metru get webbed up by the Visorak and subsequently mutated into Beast Men.

Temporarily happens to your character in Limbo. You have to make an escape while still covered in webbing, greatly reducing your mobility. It's a bit of a comic relief moment, actually, unless you trip into a pit of spikes...

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver has this in the Silenced Cathedral, which is inhabited by spider-like degenerate vampires. Many of them are still moving.

Any area in Dragon Age: Origins that includes Giant Spider enemies is bound to have quite a few of these to loot.

The spiders can also do this to playable characters, stunning them for a short period of time.

World of Warcraft has a few boss encounters where either the mooks or the bosses can cast a web wrap. Notably Maexxna, the final boss of Naxxramas' Arachnid Quarter, will cast web wrap against the entire raid a number of times during the encounter. Web-wrapped NPCs occur in several arachnid-populated areas as well.

Warcraft III also had Nerubians being able to use Web attacks. Undead Crypt Fiends in particular could use webs to allow ground units to attack air units. In the Nerubian levels of the expansion you could see dwarves All Webbed Up just before they exploded into spiders.

In Doom 3, in areas populated with Trites, a number of webbed corpses are scattered around. Being related to them, Vagaries also have them in their choice of decoration. An interesting example is in the first Vagary's lair: one of the bodies on the ceiling twitches like crazy when you're still seeing the place through a windownote possibly because of faulty collision detection, as it only starts moving after the bay door closes after a scripted scene, but by the time you get inside, it's dead still.

Level three Spider Lair upgrade in the Battle For Middle Earth IILord of the Rings' RTS.

Warhammer Online has several quests to go into a town overrun with "Silkens", giant mutant spiders that wrap victims in cocoons. One of them is to burn the cocoons of marauders who have proven too weak to the cause by being cocooned as food/gestation units and need to be destroyed to ensure the weakness is purged. Another is to gather the blood of a prominent villager and anoint a banner with it - the villager happens to have already been cocooned, so you need only stab him and gather the blood from the twitching, prone cocoon.

Brutal Legend has this before the battle with the Heavy Metal Queen, a giant spider made of motorcycle parts. Some of the cocoons are twitching, but not because the victim is still alive—when you get near they burst and reveal dozens of tiny spiderlings.

The Pokémon moves "String Shot," which lowers the opponent's speed, "Spider Web," which completely prevents the target from escaping, and "Electroweb," which deals electric damageand lowers the target's speed. Both families of spider Pokémon can learn all of these, and it's pretty obvious how they all work.

As of Gen VI, there is "Sticky Web", which lowers Speed stat by one on a Pokemon switching in.

In Ghostbusters: The Video Game we have the Spider Witch's level which is just one big level dedicated to our webby friends. There are bodies hung from the ceiling and the whole level is basically wrapped in webs. An arachnophobes worst nightmare for sure.

A handful of minions meet this fate in Overlord II after your ship is wrecked on a spider infested tropical island. You can rescue them, though.

In Diablo III, you rescue Karyna, the Dummied Out mystic Artisan, from the enormous web she's caught in moments before the Spider Queen arrives to suck her guts out.

In a standard game, this is the result of failing a save against the wizard spell "Web", or traps that copy its effect. The web stays until the character successfully makes a new saving throw, but the character can get webbed again as long as he's still in the spell's area of effect.

An optional late-game dungeon has some areas with lots of dead bodies all cocooned up, the handiwork of either phase spiders or carrion crawlers.

With the Sword Coast StratagemsGame Mod installed, giant spiders will shoot wads of webbing at characters, holding them in place for a while if they fail a saving throw.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate introduces the Nerscylla, a gigantic spider that attempts to do this to your hunter. If it's successful, the Nerscylla will either attempt to bite you with its huge pincers to inflict poison or sting you to put you to sleep.

Dreamwalk Journal spinoffs The Widow and Nightshade, the Merry Widow (NSFW) feature partially-wrapped anthro-arthropod victims, waiting not to be eaten but screwed senseless.

Spinnerette is a rare heroic example, since she's part spider. She hasn't gotten to do it to any villains yet, though; her only use of this tactic so far was when her own teammates were hit with a Hate Plague poison.

Searching in DeviantArt for "webbed" or "cocooned" in their search box. You will find TONS of examples there.

In the web series Death Battle episode "Batman vs Spider-Man", this is ultimately how Spider-Man takes down Batman, although it is said outright Batman could have escaped if given enough time, it left him vulnerable long enough for Spider-Man to deal the death blow.

Western Animation

The Aladdin: The Series episode "Web of Fear" had the Unkhbut wrap up Princess Jasmine and take her underground.

Papa Smurf in The Smurfs episode "The Magnifying Mixture" got spun into a cocoon when he accidentally spilled the enlarging formula onto a small spider.

Happens in at least one episode of W.I.T.C.H. to all of the girls at once, then just to Will.

The purpose of the Spidermobile in the episode of the same name in The Dreamstone. It ends up as one of the Urpney's few formidable weapons, successfully webbing up nearly everyone in the Land Of Dreams (and later Rufus, Amberley and Pildit when they try to sneak into Viltheed).

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